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7/01/2015

Earlier this year, Modest Mouse returned from a years-long absence with the new album Strangers To Ourselves, and as we learn from their new video for the single “The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box,”
they may have just been spending that time away perching on Oregon
garbage dumps. In the new video, the band lives in a fantastical
dreamworld made entirely out of trash, wearing plastic-bag headdresses
and clutching scepters made of broken lightbulbs. My favorite might have
been the crown of discarded keys. The clip features pretty-lady
apparitions and kabuki sorcerers, and it ends with Isaac Brock fighting a
guy dressed entirely in old ties, leading to a blood finale that’s
probably meant to evoke the fight between the Mountain and the Viper on
the last season of Game Of Thrones.